Zauri has over 5 years of professional experience in tax and taxation. Prior to joining Tax Compliance, he worked at BIG-4 in the tax dispute resolution group.
He graduated with a Bachelor's degree from the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy with a specialisation in Financial and Banking Law and a Master's degree from the National Research University Higher School of Economics with a specialisation in Financial, Tax and Customs Law.
He specialises in representing clients in tax and customs disputes at the court and pre-trial stages, as well as providing support during in-house and field audits.
Significant projects realised by Zauri include:
- Supporting a client in a pre-trial appeal against the results of a tax audit on the legality of accounting for expenses and applying VAT deductions on transactions with "technical" companies.
- Supporting a client in a pre-trial settlement of a dispute with the tax authority over the accounting for a multi-billion dollar loss arising from transactions involving the purchase of bonds and the conclusion of cross-currency swaps.
- Supported the client in a dispute with the customs authority over the inclusion in the customs value of goods of licence fees paid to an interdependent entity with an additional charge of over RUB 400 million.
Participant and speaker at conferences organised by Pravo. ru.
